Reuven Moskowitz Foundation's Scholarships and Residency Program 2024-25

 

The Foundation is embarking on a yearlong pilot program of scholarships and residencies for music students of high artistic potential. The scholarships are intended to promote equality of opportunities for students of underprivileged backgrounds in developing their evident skills. They will be made equally available in the Arab, Bedouin an Jewish communities.

We hope, at our ‘Music for Peace’ Foundation, to see this pilot program grow, expanding both in number of scholarships offered and is scope and variety of artistic get-togethers, musical events, promoting creative skills among musicians, critical thinking, and encouraging wider social and cultural consciousness.

 

Our pilot year will proceed along several steps:

• Granting scholarships to 12 – 14 young musicians, selected after consulting with the various conservatories about their needs. In the past two years grants were given to students of Zeriab Conservatory in Nazareth, directed by the musician Sameer Makhoul. Mr. Makhoul’s school has been in contact with our Foundation’s people for some years now, and the ideas for the current project were largely inspired by our observing his schools activities and the achievements accomplished by his students. In the present year, 2023-24, the scholarship program will expand to include students from the southern periphery – Sderot, Netivot and the Negev.The scholarships will cover the full annual tuition of each recipient at his or her schools, which is estimated to be about 5000 NIS. The accurate amount and the number of sholarships granted will depend on the volume of donations that the Foundation will be able to collect.

• The second step take place at the end of the current schoolyear. It will consist of a joint residency period of 4-5 days for all scholarship recipients at a proper retreat with full board and meals. The students will bring their own musical materials (compositions or arrangements) with the goal of preparing a new ensemble (joint) opus based on their individual contributions. The process will be guided by Teachers – performers and composers, Arab and Jewish, who will lead the process of creation as it progresses. Additionally, the joint residency, Discussion and debate meetings will be held, covering subjects such as current affairs, communication-building workshops, and workshops for enrichment of musical knowledge-base.

• The third step of this year’s program will be an annual concert. The concert will feature individual students compositions as well as performance of works from the repertoire learned and perfected during the year. The annual concert hold several performances across the country.

• Assuming, hopefully, that the first year’s pilot program proves successful, we expect to broaden the project in the subsequent year to create a second group of deserving scholarship recipients, while the first group of project graduates continues to develop and keeps performing as a viable ensemble.

  

Estimated financial plan

 

	14 scholarships of 5,000 NIS each	70,000 NIS	Scholarships
Assuming partial coverage donated by hosts	Lodging, full board, rehearsals	40,000 NIS	Full 5-day residency for 14 participants
		21,000 NIS	Teachers and group leaders fees
		4,000 NIS	Transportation
		4,500 NIS	Concert hall rental
		8,000 NIS	Auditorium sound and lighting
		5,000 NIS	Professional video recording
		7,000 NIS	Performance production
		25,000 NIS	Annual pilot plan labor cost
		15,000 NIS	Unanticipated extras provision
US$ 56,857	51,000 Euro	199,000 NIS	TOTAL

 

NOTE 1. 

Except for the scholarship amounts that reflect actual tuition values, all other amounts projected are based on our assumption that prices may be kept significantly below current market values, through donations and support to the project by service providers and other donors.

 

NOTE 2.

The names of the juvenile musicians who receive the scholarships will be published and the contributing donor will receive a quarterly progress report.

 

NOTE 3.

This it a single-year pilot project. We hope that a second group will commence a similar process in the following year, while the first group is further advancing as a productive performing ensemble. With such successive stepping we hope to generate a community of practitioners and students who, with the help of their teachers, will advance concerts and joint get-togethers of joint Arab and Jewish participation, promoting, as they go, both an artistic-creative message an and a social and cultural message.

 

 

Sincerely,

 

Ms. Smadar Emor ‒ CEO

Reuven Moskowitz Foundation – Music for Peace

+972545726729

 

Ms. Mai Caspi

Art direcro and producer

+972545782729

 

 

 

Foundation Email:

musicforpeacefoundation@walla.co.il

 

Smadar Emor’s Email:

smadaremor2@gmail.com